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The environmental movement today consists of both large national groups and also many smaller local groups with local concerns. Some resemble the old U.S. conservation movement – whose modern expression is The Nature Conservancy, Audubon Society and National Geographic Society – American organizations with a worldwide influence.
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Daphne Frias (born 1998), activist focusing on gun control, climate change and environmental and disability justice; Inez Fung (born 1949), climate modeling, biogeochemical cycles, and climate change; Niria Alicia Garcia (born 1993), environmental activist; Pat Gozemba (born 1940), LGBT activist focusing on the environment
Watford was raised in Curtis Bay, Maryland, in an area with significant air pollution. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] While in high school, she started an advocacy campaign against an incinerator project that had been approved by the city and state, and could burn 4,000 tons of waste per day. [ 5 ]
Greenpeace USA activists had joined with indigenous tribes and thousands of environmentalists from around the country to block construction of the pipeline. The protests drew national and international attention over Native American tribes' treaty rights, access to clean drinking water and the dangers of burning fossil fuels.
Rose Marie Augustine is an American environmental justice activist from Tucson, Arizona. In 1985, she helped found the group Tucsonians for a Clean Environment to raise awareness about groundwater pollution in the South Side of Tucson, which disproportionately affected low-income and Hispanic neighborhoods. [1] [2] [3]
Environmental Action is a 501(c)(4) non-profit environmental advocacy organization in the United States.Founded in 1970 by environmental activists at the first Earth Day, [1] it operated until 1996 but was then rebooted in 2012 as part of the Public Interest Network, a family of non-profit organizations that includes the Public Interest Research Group, Environment America, Green Corps and others.
An environmental organization is an organization coming out of the conservation or environmental movements that seeks to protect, analyse or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation from human forces. In this sense the environment may refer to the biophysical environment or the natural environment.